Great news from the White House and Department of Education! We'll be keeping our ear to the ground for details on this new STEM education grant program for women and minorities. We'll also directly contact our school partners as more information is released. Here's the announcement.

New York City Chancellor Carmen Fariña attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony. "This, to me, is what all students should have!" said Ms. Fariña. "It's also going to give the middle schools in the neighborhood a run for their money because these students are already going to go into middle school prepared to be scientists of tomorrow."

Television news channel NY1 was there to cover the event, watch it here.

Earlier today, we posted news coverage of the exciting announcement that Englewood Schools has become the first district in Colorado to offer fully-articulated STEM SmartLab programs to all of its students grades K-12.